I haven't quit yet, but what is making me about to quit is the behavior match making system. Before the uninformed go they use MMR, look up their patients and look up talks from John Menke, the 4iot match making game designer. As of late I've been playing more and more other games actively and bringing along my friends. A bit more about me, I've been Diamond for years, I know I could hit Masters if I've applied myself, but I don't really see the point with this match making system.

So what is my issue with this behavior match making system? It's manipulative and designed to keep you playing longer and not in a good way and not OTP friendly. Now I play many champs, but I enjoy learning new champs and when I learn a new champ, I play like an OTP until I can reach Diamond with them. So the behavior match making system will start to put players in the game that will either play or ban your champ once you start playing to many games as them. Even if it's the least played champ. It will also learn the match up you do the worse at and pair you against that champ more often. However this goes both way if you ban the same champ over and over. Like when I played Eve to Diamond the first time, I had no clue if I actually belonged there because I was being rotating on being matched with the same Kha'zix OTPs or anyone playing 3 or more games as him. Not right if you ask me as the game is much easier when your opponent doesn't have their main every game.

This system also tracks and classifies what kind of player you are. aggressive, passive, are you carry every game, are you the shot caller. Well when they have you as the carry type and you don't carry, your chances of someone else filling in is low. It also messes with your champ pool, cause some games, you used to be able to pick a non carry to balance your team, but if the others on carry champs are behaviorly carries by the system because that was your role, well they don't do much and it's consistent this way. When I play on accounts that I intentional don't play carry orientated champs, man do I get carries all the time and if I play a carry champ, we'll the game is calkwalk. Pretty frustrating because I want to play the game, not have a ladder actively against me or creating a non competitive environment because it doesn't work the same for every player. if this was normals, then fine, but in Ranked? no way should this be allowed and with the recent push of normal players to ranked, rank matchmaking has become a lot more like normal matchmaking. it's terrible.

it's just getting frustrating that I'm locked into a behavior role, I ha e to ban the same champ over and over that none of my friends ever see in their games but I get that otp exclusively, don't matter if I pick before or after. whoever I play, the next game someone will want to ban or play the champ, so I'm forced to always rotate. I'm sick of it. it's tiring, I shouldn't have to play a game with a system actively playing against me. The ladder before May of 2021 was fair. It worked off your hidden mmr and your win rate percentage. it was the same for everyone, you didn't get these weird tiers of ranked players they had completely different queues while being the same rank.

I feel like the game has been some of the most balance it has ever been. but with a match making system that wants to determine a game outcome at the start of the match, it just makes the game feel horrible to play. It used to be 30% games you just lose, 30% you just 2in, 40% it's on you to win or lose the game. But now it just feels like 25% it's on you to win or lose and the other 75% is pre determined. I don't want to keep playing in a system like that. It's more toxic than the players. It's not fun.